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A gripping novel masterfully written,
A Promise Fulfilled takes us back in time to meet unforgettable
characters caught up in the struggles of ordinary Jews confronted by
extraordinary times.
Menachem Kagan deftly weaves suspenseful stories,
complex characters and the tides of history spanning seven centuries. Jews in a
12th-century French town grapple with an outrageous anti-Semitic charge against
them. The weary rabbi, the young families, the simple tradesmen, all look to the
scholar who is the only one who can possibly save them. In fifteenth century
Spain, a Christian is inspired by a clandestine circle of Jewish converses
to seek his own long-buried Jewish heritage, and learns the secret of Jewish
survival. Two hundred years later, a Polish town is bitterly divided between
believers and non-believers in the false messiah, Shabbtai Tzvi. Parents and
sons, husbands and wives, rabbis and laymen battle as the powerful fervor
reaches a deadly crescendo. And centuries later, an assimilated Parisian Jew is
magnetically drawn to the Judaism he despised as he races to escape the Nazi
killing machine.
How are they connected? Read this realistic and compelling
story and you'll find out!